The Naval Institute Guide to Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, 19th Edition

Reducere. The Battle of Midway, commemorated annually in the U.S. Navy, warrants close attention. This Naval Institute guide includes some of the most vibran...

This is the fifth fully revised edition of a book first published in 1970. This longevity is testimony to its enduring value as a reference work--i...

Tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy's war-winning Grand Fleet: the Home Fleet. Established in early 1907, the Home Fleet co...

The Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916, pitted Great Britain and Imperial Germany--the two largest fleets of World War I--against one another f...

DescriptionOn 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet--interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice--began to founder taking their Briti...

Reducere. The dramatic tale of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II received little attention prior to the publication of this book in 1982, when Winslow c...

The Power and the Glory tells the story of royal fleet reviews from the fifteenth century to the 2005 International Fleet Review, commemorating the...

The Naval Officer's Guide, intended primarily for commissioned officers in the U.S. Navy, is also a valuable introduction to the sea services for o...

This book sets out to provide a coherent history of the fortunes of this ship-type in the twentieth century. It begins with a brief summary of deve...

Reducere. Aimed at the general reader with an interest in World War II and the U.S. Navy, this book looks at the massive salvage effort that followed the att...

Reducere. During World War II eighty-eight of the almost three thousand Liberty ships built in America were launched in Savannah, Georgia. Without Liberty sh...

As naval officers transition to rewarding and challenging jobs ashore, Naval Officer's Guide to the Pentagon offers a valuable helping hand along t...

DescriptionThe technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as...

Publisher: Naval Institute PressAuthor(s): Christian N. HalidayIllustration(s): 82 black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 752Collection: Scarl...

Since the US Navy's beginnings, it has created, adapted, rejected, and sometimes grudgingly accepted new technologies. This entry into the Wheel Bo...

Reducere. Also Available in an Audio Edition from Audible via AmazonIn Flight of the Intruder Jake Grafton is an A-6 Intruder pilot during the Vietnam War wh...

Reducere. Despite a supreme belief, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share o...

Reducere. To be equally enjoyed by professional aviators and aviation buffs with limited technical knowledge, this biography brings to life the legendary air...

DescriptionOn July 31, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) began a reconnaissance cruise off the coast of North Vietnam. On August 2, three...

Reducere. Seizing the Enigma tells the thrilling story of the Royal Navy's battle to crack the Germans' supposedly unbreakable U-boat Enigma code, which woul...

When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer co...

DescriptionThis is the extraordinary story of the people with the vision to build not one, but a whole fleet of the world's biggest cruise ships, e...

Publisher: Naval Institute PressAuthor(s): George E. MeltonIllustration(s): 16 black & white photographs, 2 mapsNumber of pages: 280Publication dat...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andrew GordonForeword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providin...

DescriptionThis is the extraordinary story of the people with the vision to build not one, but a whole fleet of the world's biggest cruise ships, e...

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Reducere. Clash of Fleets is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during World War I. Much more t...

Reducere. Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer st...

Reducere. In January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn th...

DescriptionThis refreshingly impartial history of the Office of Naval Intelligence is important both because ONI was the first official American in...

Reducere. At the turn of the twentieth century, Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian Stafford Corbett emerged as foundational thinkers on naval strategy and mariti...

Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational ...

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